If you're going to spell 'Cardassian' with a K you might as well go for 'Kardashian' ;)

This is a pretty cute idea for ENT specifically, but it breaks down as soon as shields are invented - all the Trek series and movies where shields are around they're pretty consistent that shields up = no beaming.

Still though, in all shows and especially in ENT it seems like the transporters would indeed have a ton of tactical benefits that are almost never considered.

I mean even when shields are in the picture, how is beaming massive explosive devices never considered? And on ENT I mean hell with making their corridors sphagehtti just beam a chunk of antimatter onto the bridge from your warp core. Instant ship annihilation.

So yeah, great thread, great point. Can't imagine how many tactical situations were encountered on all the shows that creative transporter use could have altered drastically! C'MON O'BRIEN WAY TO MISS THE BOAT JEEZ

all the Trek series and movies where shields are around they're pretty consistent that shields up = no beaming.

Some more advanced races still manage beaming, somehow. Hell, the Voth can beam entire starships. But yeah, the main powers of the Alpha/Beta Quadrants - the Federation, Romulans, Klingons, Cardies, etc - don't have the ability to beam through shields unless you the other guy's shield "frequency" (whatever that is). Star Trek shields are supposed to work through the manipulation of gravitons, and I'd imagine that said gravitons would do some strange shit to you when you are in the form of a beam of energy.

I'm always annoyed when there's an intruder on the Enterprise, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, whatever and instead of beaming the asshole into space they run after him. Same goes for hostage situations. I think there's an early TNG episode where Klingons run around the Enterprise and threaten to shoot the warp core - why not beam those wads into the brig?

In most of those scenes (at least the ones I remember from TNG/DS9/Voyager), the intruder is always a computer hacker who can pull out a panel and access transporter controls no matter where he is on the ship/station.

Hmm, I need to rewatch those episodes. Then yeah, Picard should have just dropped some photons in their toilets.

We are told, after all, that photon torpedoes can be incredibly powerful (though we never see them being that powerful). Apparently they are superior to nuclear weapons, so a photon should decimate a Borg Cube from the inside. Whenever we see torpedoes going off, however, they don't seem to be anything more than a very powerful conventional explosive.

my biggest frustration with ENT was casting the quantum leap guy as captain. I grew up watching episodes and reruns of quantum leap. I never bought Scot Bakula as a starfleet captain. if I tried to watch ENT, I just thought, "why is the quantum leap guy overacting as an intense starfleet captain.

speaking of overacting and intense, Sisko is a large part of why I got turned off of DS9.

I'm as big as a TOS, TNG, Voyager fan you'll find, but I never got into DS9 and ENT. I'm new to /r/startrek. do other people feel similarly?

What? You don't think the time traveler with 4 doctorates, who is also trained to fight, who also has to constantly deal with moral dilemmas and figure out nonviolent ways to solve problems would make a bad captain?

I liked Bakula as archer and think he does a good job with the role. I also like to sometimes pretend that Sam Bennet somehow just lept into archer's body in order to deal with all that temporal nonsense and help found the federation.

You should try giving it another shot. It's all available on Netflix right now, and you'd be hard pressed to find someone here who doesn't love it. Many would even tell you it's the best Trek show there is.

The first season is terribly boring. Season 2 is better but still bad. Season 3 it becomes more entertaining and watchable, although I'll say this it still isn't anything to write home about. Season 4 is when the show becomes legitimately good. So yeah, people complain a lot about enterprise but DS9 has one of the slowest starts in star trek.

Seasons 1-3 have their moments(moreso 3 than the other 2) but there are way too many dull and slow episodes.

I actually really enjoyed Bakula's take of a Starfleet captain. As for Sisko - he's a total boss. No overacting on Avery Brooks' part, he's very much like that in real life too. ENT is underrated - especially after it found its footing in Season 2. As for DS9, it's unreal good.

Yes. This a million times. Archer comes off as the worst, most clueless type of middle manager to me. He even sits T'Pol down for a personnel evaluation once, for God's sake. I think Bakula is actually a talented actor, and any ENT episode where he's basically not playing Archer tends to be good. I suspect the writers just handed him a crap character with crap dialogue.